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The Unforeseen Wilderness: An Essay on Kentucky's Red River Gorge (Signed)
by Berry, Wendell & Gene Meatyard (Photographer)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good-
- Seller
-
Madison, Indiana, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1971. First Edition. Second Printing. Hardcover. Square octavo. 9 x 8.75 inches. 96 pp, plus photos. Very Good+ / Very Good-. Signed by Berry on half title. Association copy from the Estate of Robert F. Sexton, M.D. Laid-in card with gift inscription from Rena and John Jacob Niles. Dr. Sexton's wife, Nancy Sexton, née Niles, was a niece of John Jacob Niles, the composer, singer, and collector of traditional ballads, known as the "Dean of American Balladeers." Original price-clipped dust jacket with photograph on front panel. Publisher's original cream-colored cloth over board. Spine lettering gilt stamped on black field. Black & white photographic frontispiece and 48 full-page black & white photographic illustrations by Ralph Eugene (Gene) Meatyard. Case slightly age toned. Internally bright and unmarked. Dust jacket lightly edge-worn with minor loss at rear upper tip, one small closed tear to lower front panel, light toning to spine and edges, creasing and small ink mark to rear panel. Dust jacket now in removeable archival protective cover. Freedman A17.2.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0000095
- Title
- The Unforeseen Wilderness
- Author
- Berry, Wendell & Gene Meatyard (Photographer)
- Illustrator
- Meatyard, Gene
- Format/Binding
- Publisher's original cream-colored cloth over board
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Second Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- University Press of Kentucky
- Place of Publication
- Lexington, KY
- Date Published
- 1971
- Pages
- 96
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Kentucky, river, nature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed copies; Photography; Essays; Association copies;
Terms of Sale
Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2008
Madison, Indiana
About Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
Village Lights Bookstore opened as a brick-and-mortar shop in 2008. We are a "mom & pop" business, and we live in the same building. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, the American Booksellers Association, and the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association. We offer a modest, but diverse, selection of rare, collectible, and antiquarian items, as well as select higher quality new books. We carefully grade our books in accordance with IOBA Book Condition Definitions (https://www.ioba.org/conditions-definitions), describe them using standard ABAA terminology (https://www.abaa.org/glossary), and painstakingly package them to prevent damage in transit. We value direct communication, so please feel free to call if you have questions about our listings or to confirm that an item is still on hand. And consider visiting us on Main Street in the heart of downtown Madison, Indiana, the country's largest contiguous National Historic Landmark District, and a Designated Indiana Cultural District, on the banks of the beautiful Ohio River.
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Jacket
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- Octavo
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- Laid-in
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- Edges
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- Spine
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- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Association Copy
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- Good+
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- Cloth
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